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... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
Carlos Castaneda
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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
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The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.
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The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
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Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
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...one should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
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The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
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Your problems is that you think you have time.
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The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
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Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls they don't demolish them.
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There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
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You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
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Burn your bridges every 2 years.
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For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.
Carlos Castaneda
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
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It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people
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The secret is not in what you do to yourself but rather in what you don't do.
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